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Date Posted: 14:17:24 04/30/03 Wed
Author: Urban Barrister
Subject: Re: Overall program quality
In reply to: BU Bearcats Fan 's message, "Re: Overall program quality" on 01:23:10 04/30/03 Wed

>>>A while back there was some discussion about the
>>>overall program at AE Schools and there was some talk
>>>about Binghamton's lack of quality across the board.
>>>Just as an update since the fall and given that
>>>Baseball and women's basketball are down this year
>and
>>>lacrosse is new.
>>>
>>>Men's Swimming - Conference Champs
>>>Women's Swimming - 3rd place
>>>Men's basketball - 4th place
>>>Women's tennis - 2nd place
>>>Men's tennis - Conference Champs
>>>Golf - Conference Champs
>>>Softball - currently 4th place
>>>
>>>That is not too bad for second year in conference and
>>>in Division I.
>>
>>Give it up. You played the golf tournament on your
>>home course. As for tennis, that's a throwaway sport
>>at most league institutions, it's just there for Title
>>IX reasons.
>>And by the way, your lacrosse "teams" are an
>>embarassment to the sport. Stony Brook women's team
>>is brand new this year and they made the playoffs and
>>you didn't.
>
>
>Binghamton has won more golf tournaments this year
>than any other team in division I !

Moreover, our closest AE competition, Hartford, played in six of those tourneys, and we beat them in FIVE of them (3 times by a double figure margin) and tied them in one. So, home course advantage had nothing to do with it.

As for Title IX, the choice to play women's tennis, with teams that average around EIGHT members, has nothing to do with Title IX. It makes no sense to add a sport that only changes the balance by 8. It's sports like women's lacrosse and field hockey, which average something like 30 members, that make a difference -- which is why the rest of the AE sports teams for each and, up until now, Bing didn't. We were smart enough to realize that football is a huge drain on money and, thus, not worth starting.

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